Research On The Government Function In The Construction Of Social Responsibility Of Multinational Corporations In China

During 40 years of our country’s economic reform and open up,a large number of foreign companies have entered China Market and played an important role in promoting Chinese economic development.But at the same time,transnational corporations in china have been exposed to lots of social responsibility deficiency like environmental pollution,tax evasion,tax fraud and price fraud for many times.Most of the existing documents take enterprises as the research object,explaining the lack of social responsibility and analyzing the reasons behind them.In response to these reasons,they put forward requirements and suggestions on government supervision.However,there are only few documents which stand on the government’s point of view and take research on the role which the government should play in promoting the social responsibility construction of transnational corporations in China.In response to the situation above,this article attempts to research on government functions in the social responsibility construction of transnational corporations in China.First of all,this article introduces the concept,characteristics,scale and affection of transnational corporations in China,and defines the connotation of social responsibility of these companies.Then,it explains that the government is the most important factor in the social responsibility construction of transnational corporations in China through the discussion of meta governance theory,stakeholder theory and government function theory,so as to conclude that the government has advocated functions,safeguard functions,and supervisory functions during the social responsibility construction.In the next place,Through field research on the government departments of the K district in S city.We can understand the functional measures and the results achieved by the government departments of the K district in promoting the social responsibility construction of transnational corporations in China,summarize the deficiencies and weakness in the efficiency of publicity,the degree of openness and the power of supervision,and analyze the reasons for the long-term deviation of the government’s concept,the lack of social responsibility information system,and the backwardness of relevant standards at the same time.Finally we can provide advise and countermeasure for improving the effectiveness of the Chinese government in promoting the social responsibility construction of transnational corporations by establishing transnational corporations’ concept of social responsibility,optimizing the law-based marketing environment,improving the law system for transnational corporations’ social responsibility construction,enhancing the effectiveness of primary-level supervision,formulating international universal transnational corporation social responsibility standards and carrying out international exchanges and cooperation.